Each Inanimate Thing

        Sunlight poured down rich and luxuriant, fluid and gilded as oil, picking out highlights on the Seine, on the pavement dampened by the sprinkler, on a dormer window, and on a tile roof on the Ile Saint-Louis. A mute, overbrimming life flowed from each inanimate thing. Shadows were violet as in impressionist canvases, taxis redder on the white bridge, buses greener.

Georges Simenon

• image
• Emilio Roncini
• Simenon 1957

https://www.gettyimages.ie/photos/georges-simenon?family=editorial&page=2&phrase=georges%20simenon&sort=best#

Reichenbach Falls

• Reichenbach Falls
• John McKay
• BBC tv 2007

Big Lonely City #125

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Duane Michals

Fred Lyon

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Harry Kerr

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Brassai

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Kees Scherer

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Saul Leiter

Stanley Kubrick

some images reblogged

via Noirsville.blogspot.com

More Dirty Femmes

 

Jack Vettriano

Mac Conner

Harry Schaare

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Victor Olson

Elizabeth Yoo

1970

Le Cercle Rouge

 The Conformist

Confession

 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Le Boucher

The Kremlin Letter

The Bird with Crystal Plummage

Performance

Used to Be

 

Things Ain't What They Used To Be

(Ellington/Persons)

Oscar Peterson

So Many Outcasts

          Then the wooden benches along the walls, where so many outcasts had slept, would be lit by a sort of slow, clocked lightning till the bulb steadied and fastened it's tiny feral fury upon the center of the room like a single sullen and manic eye. To burn on there with a steady hate.

The Man with the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren
1949

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/642643/the-man-with-the-golden-arm-by-nelson-algren-introduction-by-james-r-giles/

Brett Weston